Developing Supporting Characters in Movie Script

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Okay, I want you to turn the page again and to a fresh sheet of paper and we'll continue on with characters and other characters. We talked about our four main characters and their functions. That is the two leads and their two co-stars. That is if you are going to use the main, the six main character format, which I recommend you do for the first time out. But that leaves us two remaining characters. If we have the two leads, two co-stars and I said six people. There's two more that you can have and they would be called supporting or featured characters. These people are necessary to build humor or drama or give information to move the story forward. They usually have a few lines of dialogue and are unique to the story so you've got to make them interesting. They must serve a purpose. You just don't throw characters in that have no connection to the main story. Don't add ten or fifteen characters just to add color or to be cute. Make them helpful to the main character or trouble for the main character. Usually four to five featured characters are plenty. What is an extra? You've probably heard that term a lot. Many of them, they may or may not have dialogue. They are there to fill in a scene, to make it real and believable. Now they too must have a reason for being there. They must do something to add to the story. They last group of actors would be called background. Another word for that is atmosphere people. And that is their function, exactly as it says, to fill in the background or atmosphere to a scene.

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